Urinary stents and catheters are implanted medical tubes that are widely used in human and veterinary medicine to drain urine ...

Covering stents with hairlike structures called cilia may help keep the implanted medical tubes clean, preventing infection, researchers report April 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Recent studies in a range of model organisms have made important progress ... been previously proposed — namely that either nodal cilia provide a general mechanism for breaking the initial ...